EarlyStageVC

OK, there is a high visibility Enterprise raising capital right now. It has been for a while. It's not a startup. It’s been around for 221 years to be exact. The original Plan (pre-powerpoint) was...

Hi. I’m back. Well, at least for a moment. I’m been radio silent for a while because I didn’t feel I had much to say. Blogger’s block, perhaps. I prefer to think of it as editing in extremis. Over...

After a six and half year hiatus, the Industry Standard is resuming publication today. There are two great lines in the original self-report of its death. "The Standard was a victim of many of the...

In the past 15 years the Web has become the primary information source for over 1B people. It is where we go to learn about anything and everything, from our business life to entertainment life to...

As the Web 2.0 has become enamored with all things social media, I have increasingly lost interest in investing in the next Facebook clone. So imagine my surprise this morning as I saw the Crunchie...

Today Nova Spivack has taken the covers off of Twine and he will demonstrate it today at the Web 2.0 conference. My prior post on knowledge networks was an attempt to lay the predicate for the...

There is a nice little article in the Economist this week talking about the glimmering appearance of semantics in web applications. We are seeing a blurring of Web 2.0 and semantic web ideas [old p...

About two weeks before my last post on Teqlo, I got an email from a producer at the BBC. They wanted to talk about Teqlo. (Actually they wanted to talk about Radar Networks, but stealth companies...

Few VCs admit to their misfires, though misses are more common in this business than hits. One of the reasons I write this blog is to add some transparency to an all too opaque business of private...

Yesterday I joined my fifth board and my first for Crosslink. Years ago I had just received a term sheet for Series A venture capital and went looking for a looking for a bank. My accounting firm...